Birth and Death:
Born:January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died: March 31, 1727 in London, England
Theory:
Isaac thought that the Universe was sun-centered
Legend has it that Sir Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell and hit him on the head causing him to come up with the idea of gravity. Actually the apple missed him and made a soft thud on the ground, but that was enough to attract Newton's attention. The apple's fall triggered the important realization that a force, gravity, attracts all bodies in the universe to each other, pulling apples to the ground and holding the Moon and the planets in their orbits.
Early age:
Isaac never meet his dad
Isaac's real father died in October, 1642
Isaac came from farming family
Isaac couldn't read his own name
Isaac’s mother is Hannah Ayscough and remarried to Barnabas Smith when Isaac was 2
Isaac's stepfather died in 1653
Adult age:
Isaac began attending the Free Grammar School
Isaac was taken away from school to manage an estate but didn’t want to
Isaac came back to Free Grammar School in 1660
Isaac entered to his uncle, William Ayscough's old collage, Trinity Collage Cambridge on July 5, 1661
Newton studied the philosophy of descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, and in particular Boyle
Isaac recorded his thought in the book,he titled Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae
Newton's interest in mathematic began in the autumn of 1663
Newton's talent began to emerge on the arrival Barrow to the Lucasian chair at Cambridge in 1663
Newton was elected a scholar on April 28, 1664 and received bachelor's degree in April, 1665
When Newton was under 25 years old, he began revolutionary advances in mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy
The bookDe Methodisserierum et Fluxionum written in 1671, published in 1736
Elected to a major fellowship in July 1668
Newton was elected a fellow of the Royal Socity, and published his first scientific paper on light and colored in 1672.
Elderly Age:
Newton published Philosophiae naturalis principia in 1687
Principia was known as the greatest scientific book ever known
Demonstrated that the planets were attracted toward the sun by a force
Newton retired from reaserch in 1693
He was knighted (honored) in 1705 by Queen Anne, the first scientist to be honored for his work
In 1727, at one point it was suggested he had a kidney stone. He was hospitalized in great pain, and went into a coma and died a few days later.
Birth and Death:
Born:January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died: March 31, 1727 in London, England
Theory:
Early age:
Adult age:
Elderly Age:
In 1727, at one point it was suggested he had a kidney stone. He was hospitalized in great pain, and went into a coma and died a few days later.
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